James Turner > Quotes

“That's it then. This is how it ends. I haven't even read Proust.”
― James Turner, Rex Libris Volume Two: Book Of Monsters

“Just because I'm a librarian doesn't mean I'm at all tame.”
― James Turner, Rex Libris, Volume I: I, Librarian

“Since at least the Sixth Century all librarians have received extensive combat training and are lethal with even the common toothpick.”
― James Turner, Rex Libris, Volume I: I, Librarian

“The Librarian has spoken, sally! We Dare Not Disobey!”
― James Turner

“Does not people's preoccupation these days with drugs, alcohol, medication and self deception prove that the truth not only hurts, but it is torture to bear?”
― James Turner

“Now...get Thoth a raspberry chocolate latte with the cream and chocolate sprinkles! Thoth commands, librarian! Obey! Sprinkles! THOTH HAS SPOKEN!”
― James Turner, Rex Libris #1

“Civilization is knowledge, even more than it is urbanization, for you cannot have the latter without the former. Everything builds on everything else. And the knowledge of civilization is kept in repositories known as...LIBRARIES, and if books burn, civilization burns with them.”
― James Turner, Rex Libris, Volume I: I, Librarian

“When I see imposters like … Swinburne, [and] Fleay, who know as much early English as my dog, & who fancy they can settle Chaucer difficulties as they blow their noses, then I ridicule or kick them. But earnest students I treat with respect, & am only too glad to learn from them.”
― James Turner, Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

“Isn't it obvious in in today's world from people's preoccupation with self-medication, drug and alcohol use, rationalization and avoidance distraction that the truth doesn't just hurt, it's extremely painful.”
― James Turner

“No one accused Frederick James Furnivall of averageness, and his career highlights the ups and downs of editorial scholarship. As eccentric as he was energetic, a Christian socialist turned agnostic, Furnivall gained a reputation for hot pink neckties, sculling on the Thames with shopgirls, and hours toiling over manuscripts in the British Museum.”
― James Turner, Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

“Figure 4: Illustration of the T-shaped”
― James Turner, Agile Project Management: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Learn Agile Project Management Step by Step

“The language of Homer lay still further off. Imagine a twenty-first-century Texan reading Chaucer.”
― James Turner, Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

“When times are bad smile, when times are good laugh.”
― James Turner